Hertha Ernestine Pauli (September 4, 1906 – February 9, 1973) was an Austrian journalist, writer and actress.

Biography

Hertha Ernestine Pauli was born in

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, the daughter of feminist Bertha Schütz and chemist Wolfgang Pauli. Her brother was

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, who was awarded the

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in 1945. From 1927-33, she played different small roles at the

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Theatre in Berlin and was allied with

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. From 1933-38, she lived in Vienna, edited the "Österreichische Korrespondenz" and published biographical novels, for example about the feminist

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. After the

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, she emigrated to France. In

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, she belonged to the circle of

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, knew the American journalist

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, and wrote for ''Resistance''. In 1940, after the Nazis occupied France, she fled with writer

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through

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, the

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and

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. With the aid of

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and the Emergency Rescue Committee, she made her way to the United States. After her arrival in the U.S., she described her flight in the journal ''

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''. In the following years she wrote books about

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and the

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. Her books for children, in particular, had some success. These books included ''Silent Night. The Story of a Song'' (1943), in which she explained the origin of the carol. She married Ernst Basch (

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, E.B. Ashton), with whom she had collaborated on ''I Lift My Lamp''. Her last book was autobiographical and described the time after the Nazi's union with France.

Death

She died in

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on February 9, 1973, aged 66.Biography
encyclopedia.com. Accessed September 5, 2022.

Works

* ''Toni. Ein Frauenleben für Ferdinand Raimund,'' 1936 * ''Nur eine Frau. Bertha von Suttner'', 1937 * ''Alfred Nobel, Dynamite King, Architect of Peace'', 1942 * ''Silent Night. The Story of a Song'', 1943 * ''Story of the Christmas Tree'', 1944 * ''St. Nicholas Travels,'' 1946 * ''I Lift my Lamp, The Way of a Symbol'', 1948 * ''The Golden Door,'' 1949 * ''Three Is a Family'', 1955 * ''Bernadette and the Lady'', 1956 * ''Her Name Was Sojourner Truth'', 1962 * ''The Secret of Sarajevo: The Story of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie'', 1966 * ''Break of Time'', 1972

References

Bibliography

* ''Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period'', edited by Sibylle Quack, David Lazar, Christof Mauch. Cambridge University Press, 2002. * Marino, Andy, ''American Pimpernel: The Man who Saved the Artists on Hitler's Death List''. Hutchinson, 1999. * Pfanner, Helmut F., ''Exile in New York: German and Austrian Writers After 1933''. Wayne State University Press, 1983. * Stern, Guy, 'Hertha Pauli'. In: Stern, Guy, ''Literatur im Exil'', Bd.2. Ismaning 1989.

External links

* "Eine Brücke über den Riss der Zeit...". Das Leben und Wirken der Journalistin und Schriftstellerin Hertha Pauli * The German and Jewish intellectual émigré collection of the university at Albany:

*
Hertha Pauli
(in German) from the archive of the

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